Dr Phil McGraw

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.